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Skipjack Joe
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David,
I'm wondering if there was a less passive way of making your demands than a letter in the mail.
P.S. Are you David Eidell?
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DavidE
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Mood: 'At home we demand facts and get them. In Mexico one subsists on rumor and never demands anything.' Charles Flandrau,
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There isn't any other way and I am too old and crabby to waste any more of my life playing go catch the "el snipe" in Mexico. For anything else not
related to this subject please U2U me.
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coolhand
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| Quote: | Originally posted by thebajarunner
But, complaining about Baja roads is like complaining about the rain in Seattle (lived up there 23 long dreary years)
It will likely make you feel a tad better, but it won't help much with the problem.
Bad Baja roads and dreary Northwest days.....
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coolhand
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And complaining about water in Baja is like complaining about ice in Antarctica.
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DavidE
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Mood: 'At home we demand facts and get them. In Mexico one subsists on rumor and never demands anything.' Charles Flandrau,
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Yes.
Especially when the penguins turn it off for no reason at all.
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aguachico
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I have been traveling that road since '04. This was before the big push to pave between BA and BT. The road from Viz to BA was always bad with sand
across the road. The road to BT was death, but now it's great.
I'm no civil engineer or geologist, but it seems that the salt flats are the reason for the unusual degradation of the road from Viz to BA. If this
is true, then there is no real solution. At least, the pot holes are white and easily seen from a truck.
I'll be in tortugas in July enjoying the best YT fishing in BAJA
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Skipjack Joe
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| Quote: | Originally posted by aguachico
I'll be in tortugas in July enjoying the best YT fishing in BAJA |
Oh?
Care to elaborate.
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DavidE
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Mood: 'At home we demand facts and get them. In Mexico one subsists on rumor and never demands anything.' Charles Flandrau,
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Having been down Mex 1, and all the other numbers to the point of numbness, I can remember the original brechas, much of the trail had parallels
sometimes up to 5 different tracks.
I've seen the pavement gone meaning not there in vast patches between Guerrero Negro and Vizcaino. Between the entroque to tres enriques and punta
prieta it was necessary in a pickup truck to come to a full stop and then ease across the crater. The road or any road cannot be fixed by sand sealing
or putting a half inch thick "overlay" down. It can only be fixed the same way SCT managed to upgrade Mex 1 and that is with a minimum of 2" of high
quality asphalt, no cheating on the percentage of pitch vs aggregate, and no cheating on fully oil saturating bare earth or sand exposed in the
pothole. But to let 22 miles of road go to hell while SCT employees busy themselves by whitewashing rock borders around their campos is unacceptable.
A decent patch job should last almost a year. Spread oil then sand (no shortage with the sand part) around the patch. SCT knows this, it is SOP on the
mainland. If SCT wanted to fix that road, it would. But it's treated like a redheaded stepchild. Thirty years ago I contracted 6 months to CalTrans
and watched, listened and learned. The condition of this spur road is no accident and it is not due to salt. Take a look at I-80 as it passes through
The Great Salt Lake in Utah. Salt eats concrete 10 times as fast as it does asphalt.
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captkw
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bup top to baja boy & all
WHAT WATER ?? B.C.S is the dryest in history !! and folk's act like fricken ant's,, about it !!!! I hope some rain and like a lot of it in small
doze's come into the sur..cow's are dying like flies when I left and it wont rain till at least june ,,if that..bummed..Keith & il Tasha..
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